Eric Hartford
Research Scientist In Artificial Intelligence at Lazarus AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Hartford is a research scientist in AI based in San Francisco with about a decade of experience bridging language-model research, dataset curation, fine-tuning and production AI engineering. He pairs deep production engineering foundations from roles at AWS, eBay and Microsoft with prolific open-source model work—finetuning and releasing high-profile models like WizardLM and Alpaca1337 and creating the leet10k dataset. An advocate for composable alignment, he authored the "Uncensored Models" post and builds tooling to collect and format training data from APIs. Currently leading research at Lazarus AI, he’s developing larger uncensored variants (e.g., WizardLM-65B) and maintains collaborative ties across the open-source AI community. Notably, he ships both research-grade models and the engineering needed to run them in production, blending MS-level academic training with pragmatic, system-level execution.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computing and Software Systems, Master of Science, Computing and Software Systems at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Pacific Lutheran University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
language-model10
swagger10
material-ui10
to-do10
oas10
chat10
gpt4all10
visual-studio10
compression10
openapi10
webui10
api10
swagger-ui10
llmops10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
cognitivecomputations/dolphin-system-messages
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Dolphin System Messages
Contributions:6 reviews, 15 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cognitivecomputations/OpenChatML
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 months
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